/dev/zero
Sign in to saveis a special file in Unix-like operating systems that provides as many null characters (ASCII NUL, 0x00) as are read from it. One of the typical uses is to provide a character stream for initializing data storage.
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- Instance of
- device file
- Part of
- Unix-like operating system
- Has use
- data stream
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- different from
- /dev/null
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